Monday, March 8, 2010

Disable Caps Lock Key in Linux

I hate the caps lock key. So, in my ~/.bash_profile I have the following line to disable caps lock:
xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
To turn off caps lock key, enter:
$ xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
Now caps key is disabled. To enable caps key, enter:
$ xmodmap -e "add lock = Caps_Lock"
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1 comments:

  1. Apparently, in Ubuntu 11.04, the proper directions are to click system->keyboard->Layouts->options->caps lock behavio and choose "disable caps lock"
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